PRIME CARE- Postpartum Remote monitoring and Integration of Mobile health with Engagement from Community HeAlth workers for Regulating Elevated blood pressure
Black women experience a substantially higher clinical burden of these conditions: a 60% higher rate of postpartum hypertension, nearly three-fold higher mortality from preeclampsia, and earlier onset and greater severity of hypertension overall. Black women also have higher rates of hypertension-related end-organ damage, including heart failure and stroke, during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Using a randomized mechanistic clinical trial of a collaborative care intervention for postpartum Black women with HDP—a population at scientifically established higher risk of adverse postpartum…
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Black women experience a substantially higher clinical burden of these conditions: a 60% higher rate of postpartum hypertension, nearly three-fold higher mortality from preeclampsia, and earlier onset and greater severity of hypertension overall. Black women also have higher rates of hypertension-related end-organ damage, including heart failure and stroke, during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Using a randomized mechanistic clinical trial of a collaborative care intervention for postpartum Black women with HDP—a population at scientifically established higher risk of adverse postpartum…